The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1887-05-12

/ ground that mouse would find it difficult
to make way through it, Mr.. Hall sowed
it in drills and says it would have been
much better had it been sown in, August
instead of September, when this. was
sown. He is a firm believer in l~ucerne.
Davis School, La Grange, N. c., will take
place Wednesday, June 9Th. Hon. w.
E. Cameron, Ex-Governor of Virginia,
will deliver the address before the Jeffer-
| son Literary Society. Gen.E. w. Noise,
of s. G., will deliver the address, before
the Washington, Literary Society. The
Cadet Battalion will be officially inspected
and reviewed by Inspector General F. H.
Cameron, Of n. G. -
1t is said that Queen Kapiolani, (the
dusky Mifefof King Bill.of the Sandwich.
Islands) who is making a little excursion
through this country and will do up
Europe, wept when she stood beside the
tomb of Washington. No doubt her feel
ings were moved when she thought of
the 60, 0Oo,O 900 of poor orphans she found
in this country. The only similar exhibit
ton Of a fully developed sympathetic ma
ture which we know of was when Mark
Twain stood and wept over the tomb of
Adam.
The fine spring weather that has favored
the farmers, the largely increased acreage
in grasses and clover, the magnificent
prospect for wheat and oats, less cotton
and less tobacco, fewer liens and mort
cages, the rapid growth and multiplica-
ton of farmers clubs all over the State,
and the big "boom" in farmers Institutes,
and gradual but steady growth of THE
Progressive FARMER, all conspire to rem
der the outlook for the farmers most
hopeful and encouraging.
A letter from a member of the Cedar
Grove Club, Forsyth county, says: II
do not know any Of our farmers who will
use more than one bag of commercial fer
~tilizers. Several of them bought a ton
each, last year. I bought four bags; this
spring I buy n Your paper was estab-
lished in time to save ome of US from a
fertilizer bankruptcy. I have read it for
ten months, and it has paid me ten-fold
the amount it cost me. Long may it live
and prosper! Every farmer in the State
ought to take it,
For long weeks and weeks the Flor
ida Legislature has been trying to elect a
United States Senator. We think there
could be many strong and good reasons
presented in favor of giving the election
of our Senators to the people. 1t is a
lamentable, if not an alarming truth, that
the Senate of the United States is rapidly
drifting away from the people, as a rep
resentative body. That chamber is fast
assuming the exclusiveness of a gilded
and gorgeous sanctum sanctorum for
~milionaires and money kings, alike repul-
sive to the American idea and dangerous
to American liberty.
We regret that we have not the space
to give an extended account of the cere-
monies on the 10th instant, at the %unveil-
ing Of the monument, erected at Smith
field in memory Of the Confederate SOL
diers who fell in the battle of Bentons-
vile in March, 1865. The ceremonies
were conducted under the auspices Of the
Masons and Odd Fellows and were beau
tiful and impressive. A poem was read
by Mr., H. L. WeFthington, of Norfolk,
Va, and the address was made by Hon.
A. M. Waddell, of Wilmington. 4 large
crowd was present, and the occasion pass
ed off most pleasantly !
Almost every mail brings US letters
of good cheer and encouragement This is
gratifying, as it assures us that our efforts
to advance the interests of the farmers
are appreciated, and we are always glad
to get them. But there are letters that
are even better and more encouraging
than these. There are letters that help
more than these, and our good friend, Mr..
@. A. Phillips, of Cedar Grove Farmers
Club, Forsyth county, knows just how to
write them. His last one began by saying:
!" Enclosed I send you a list of IL sub
scribers with the cash to pay for a years
subscription" etc. Many WARM thanks,
friend Phillips. There are at least 500
subscribers on our list who could do the
same THING for orr Daper If thew wOuld